A commentary on Viktor E. Frankl’s book “Man’s search for meaning”

Man’s search for meaning is a narration of one man’s experience inside a concentration camp and the fight for existence.

This is not a book, in my experience, that one can read in a sitting as a narration of an event that took place in the past. Although written by a humanist, the writer found the principles that the author highlights, are basic Biblical principles. This writer had to pause on many occasions to reflect on the magnitude of the events taking place at the concentration camp. At times the writer found herself crying with the prisoners as she imagined their torture. As the writer read the book, many times she had to pause to reflect on her own life and some of the challenges she had encountered. This led to a realization that all her experiences served a purpose.


As the writer read through the pages, she realized that she had been asking the wrong questions about her life. Everything in life happens for a reason; even suffering can define our destiny. Indeed Christ identified His destiny as dying for the salvation of the human race and found meaning in it. The only thing that we truly own and are masters of is our will. Anything else can be taken away or restored but once we lose our will to live we lose everything.


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